Brian Cody Prosser, 28

Army, Staff Sergeant

Based: Ft. Campbell, Ky.

3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group

Supporting: Operation Enduring Freedom

Died: December 5, 2001

Showli Kowt, Afghanistan

Married

Gender: Male

Hometown: Frazier Park

High School: Maricopa High (Maricopa)

Burial: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

Prosser was among the first casualties in Afghanistan. He died alongside two other soldiers and five anti-Taliban Afghan fighters when a U.S. bomb missed its target. More than 1,000 family members, friends and soldiers attended his funeral.

Matthew W. Bancroft, 01/09/2002

11 memories of Brian Cody Prosser

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Brian, I remember your humor, atheletics, kindness and the good times at lunch and long bus rides home with the "Hill Kids" to Frazier Park when we went to Maricopa H.S. together. You inspired me to join the military myself five years ago, by your example and with the hope of partly picking up the job where you left off as best as I can. I hope to be one quarter as good at it as you have been. Your legacy is the now free country and people of Afghanistan who enjoy so many of the freedoms Americans often take for granted; they can vote, have free speech, women can be educated and pursue the career they want and all this without threat of reprisal or being stoned to death as with the Taliban regime. Whatever the critics say, I hope they pause long enough to realize that it's soldiers like you that have pushed back the darkness of tyranny the world over throughout history and that soldiers love peace first and most since they may pay the highest price for it as you have. The poet Edmund Burke said, "All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." For me you exemplify the honor of recognizing that risk and rising to the challenges to see that good prevails. Things are not perfect in Afghanistan, but they are moving in the right direction and you helped protect and position their leader so this process could move along. I hope they never forget you for it, I'm sure I never will. I also hope I can pay my respects to you at Showli Kowt, Afghanistan one day, but until then you are often missed, my friend.

” — Patrick J Horton, June 20, 2008 at 8:38 a.m.

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I am sad to say I did NOT know him. I am a mother of Army, and my family members are/were Army too. I shared on my facebook timeline about my experience at Green Hills Cemetery in California, and how I came across the Monument of "Cody". I was drawn there without knowing what for, and I was guided to this Monument of this Brave young man. It so happens that my name is DEBORAH PROSSER. I have read up about him and his family. I am trying to figure out why I was drawn there, and if it was by "Cody" or his father, Brian. I just want to express my Thanks to "Cody" for his sacrifice and to his family. I will have him in my heart always. I will visit this monument on a regular basis. I shared his story with my family and my friends. Friends then shared my timeline post also. I hope all see AGAIN the bravery he showed for us all. With love, Deborah PROSSER-Wolf. <3

” — Deborah Prosser-Wolf, October 22, 2013 at 12:05 p.m.

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